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Heath Ledger (seated) as the Joker and Christian Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight (2008).
In the context of DC Comics stories, Damian Wayne is the son of Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Talia al Ghul, who is the daughter of Batman's adversary Ra's al Ghul.12
While their union was first depicted in the 1987 story Batman: Son of the Demon, it was not integrated into mainstream DC continuity until 2006 by writer Grant Morrison. Damian was trained by the League of Assassins before eventually adopting his father's code of crime fighting and serving as Robin.12